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Salmonella Blog
Salmonella outbreak traced to restaurant meat slicer
WALB News Full Story To find the Video Link, click here and go to the bottom of the page. Valdosta - Faulty equipment at a fast food restaurant was…
Norovirus Blog
Norovirus suspected in Falls outbreak
By Bill Marler
By The Associated Press Full Story from the Billings Gazette GREAT FALLS - Health officials say the "stomach flu" that has been making the rounds in Great Falls is very…
Hepatitis Blog
Google – Hepatitis A Search
1. CDC Viral Hepatitis - Features facts heets, links, news releases, surveillance, and vaccination information.www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/diseases/hepatitis/a/index.htm 2. US FDA/CFSAN - Bad Bug Book - Hepatitis A Virus Clinical research compiled by…
E. coli Blog
E. coli outbreak picked as top food story of the year
Notably, the E. coli outbreak that was traced to contaminated spinach was the most memorable story food writers across the nation wrote about this year. While Taco Bell and Taco…
E. coli Blog
Recent E. coli outbreaks nothing new to health officials
The Associated Press points out that the FDA and CDC have investigated at least five produce-related outbreaks in the last four months, including the spinach E. coli outbreak, which sickened…
Shigella Blog
BillingsGazette.com :: Shigellosis outbreak continues
According to a story in the Billings Gazette, at least 12 people have been hospitalized with Shigella infections since an outbreak began in Wyoming a few months ago. "The number…
Shigella Blog
Shigella outbreak reported in South Dakota
South Dakota health officials are warning that at least 300 people have become ill with Shigella infections since May. Children are most at risk for contracting and spreading the infection,…
Shigella Blog
Shigella outbreak sickens 17
The Billings Gazette is reporting that at least 17 people have become ill with Shigellosis in Fremont County, Wyoming. Health officials have not determined the source of the outbreak, but…
Salmonella Blog
Boiled peanuts culprit of salmonella outbreak
The Associated Press has reported that the salmonella outbreak in mid-October at the Pumkin Festival in Pumpkintown was caused by boiled peanuts. Two dozen people have been sickened by the…
Salmonella Blog
Salmonella outbreak sickened 51 in Massachusetts
A salmonella outbreak potentially linked to produce has sickened at least 172 people in 18 states, including 51 cases that were reported in Massachusetts in September, health officials said yesterday.…